Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 92

The host who heard this, laughed and said: ‘If that is your desire, there ought to be a good opportunity for you here.’

Who acts: host, that · What happens: hear, laugh, say, be · To what, where: this, desire, good opportunity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 host	acl:relcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 host	punct
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 ought	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 ought	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	16 desire	mark
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 desire	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 desire	cop
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 desire	nmod:poss
16	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ought	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 desire	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 ought	expl
19	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	24 opportunity	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 opportunity	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 opportunity	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 opportunity	amod
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ought	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 opportunity	nmod
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 ought	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the host	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	the host			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the host not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	that	your desire		tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	the host not said here	a good opportunity	for you	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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